On 22 Feb 2008, at 11:04, Bent Normann Olsen wrote:
I'm new to Mac development environment, and I was looking thru the
CoreMIDI/MIDIServices.h, to see how much work it's going to take (at
least
maybe partially) to implement some of the functions to own projects.
I hit
the wall with some typedef, for example "struct OpaqueMIDIClient *
MIDIClientRef", and I now understand that Apple do not always want
developers to know what is behind some type definitions. Is this true?
Yes. This is not Apple-specific, this is a basic way of information
hiding which is regularly used in C.
How can one come about this? I'm really open to any suggestions.
You don't need the contents (C programs don't have access to them
either). As far as the declaration goes in Pascal, just do something
like
type
POpaqueMIDIClient = ^OpaqueMIDIClient;
OpaqueMIDIClient = record
end;
var
MIDIClientRef: POpaqueMIDIClient;
Or you could even declare MIDIClientRef as a plain untyped pointer
(although you'll lose some type checking when using {$t+} in that case).
Jonas
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